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Date:      Wed, 20 Dec 2006 11:59:01 -0500
From:      Jan Knepper <jan@digitaldaemon.com>
To:        Eric Anderson <anderson@centtech.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD ISP <FreeBSD-ISP@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD 5.5 -> 6.1 for ISP purposes
Message-ID:  <45896BD5.9030402@digitaldaemon.com>
In-Reply-To: <45862C79.9080204@centtech.com>
References:  <4585A6B0.6010800@digitaldaemon.com> <45862C79.9080204@centtech.com>

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Thanks!

Any specific procedure you followed?
I tried: http://people.freebsd.org/~rse/upgrade/freebsd-upgrade-5x-6x.txt
But that does seem to have some minor problems as audit does not exist 
in /etc/group for instance.

Thanks!
Jan



Eric Anderson wrote:
> On 12/17/06 14:21, Jan Knepper wrote:
>> Hi...
>>
>> Currently running FreeBSD 5.5-STABLE, but am considering running 
>> jails with ezjail however nullfs does not seem to be stable in 5.5.
>>
>> Has any of you upgrade a life system 5.x to 6.1-STABLE? Any serious 
>> gotcha's?
>>
>> How is 6.1-STABLE for server purposes stability wise? (Dual Opteron 
>> machines with 2 GB of RAM and 256GB SATA drives)
>>
>> Thanks!
>> Jan
>
> 6-STABLE is very solid.  I've upgraded about 20 systems from 5.x to 
> 6.x.  One thing I did on all of them was to go to the latest 5-STABLE 
> code first, then hop to 6-STABLE.  I highly recommend 6-STABLE for the 
> many many UFS/VFS bug fixes.
>
> Eric
>
>
>



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